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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction